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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

The Classics Spin #4

Progress is slow on my Classics Club List. I have 85 books on my list, and I've only read six so far. Still, I've read six! This is the first time I've participated in the Classics Club Spin....I'm going to list twenty books from my list that I haven't read yet. I will have to read one of the books on the list by January 1st--a randomly chosen number (to be announced on Monday, November 18th) will determine which book on the list below will be the one I read in November/December.

Here's my list of twenty books for the Classics Club Spin #4:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
2. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
3. Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
4. An Autobiography by Anthony Trollope
5. Another Country by James Baldwin
6. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov
7. Stoner by John Williams
8. Hard Times by Charles Dickens
9. The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf
10. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
11. A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes
12. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
13. Acts of Worship by Yukio Mishima
14. The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
15. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
16. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
17. Corregidora by Gayle Jones
18. Three Lives by Gertrude Stein
19. He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
20. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

13 comments:

He Knew He Was Right is one of my favorite Trollopes, and I thought his Autobiography was fascinating - it inspired me to try Thackeray's books. I haven't read many of the other authors on your list - more to explore. I hope you get a good spin.

I haven't read either of those Trollopes, but he's one of my favorites. I've also heard great things about Stoner. It's not on my Classics Club list but I do have an unread copy, I hope to get to it soon.

Hard Times was the first Dickens novel I read, and it convinced me to then go on and take a Dickens seminar course, so allow me to root for that as your winner. It's not my favorite Dickens, but it's definitely an enjoyable read.

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Books have sustained me from childhood. I am an unregenerate bibliophile. I also love art: making it and looking at it. I used to paint and draw and write all the time; these days I am a high school English teacher. I love the act of teaching; much of the paraphernalia that goes along with education I do not like. I hate grades and would like to see them abolished.

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